Charles Duke Yonge

Charles Duke Yonge

Charles Duke Yonge (November 30, 1812 – November 30, 1891) was an English historian, classicist, and cricketer. He wrote numerous works of modern history, and translated several classical works.

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Life

He was born in Eton, Buckinghamshire. He attended Oxford University, where he played first-class cricket in 1836. Later he was the Regius Professor of Modern History at Queen's College, Belfast. He died in Belfast.

Works

  • The Life of Arthur, Duke of Wellington (1860)
  • The History of the British Navy: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (1863)
  • The History of France Under the Bourbons, a.D. 1589-1830, (1866, 4 vols.)
  • Life and Administration of Robert Banks, Second Earl of Liverpool (3 vols., 1868)
  • The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (1876)
  • The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 (1882)
  • Life of Sir Walter Scott
  • The History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Death of Viscount Palmerston, 1865
  • England's Great Generals: Sketches of the Lives of Duke of Marlborough, Lord Clive, Duke of Wellington, Sir Charles Napier, Lord Gough
  • Flowers of History, Especially Such As Relate to the Affairs of Britain
  • Seven Heroines of Christendom
  • Three Centuries of Modern History

Translations

  • Cicero, De Inventione (1853)
  • Cicero, The Nature of the Gods and on Divination (1853)
  • Cicero, The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero (1888)
  • Cicero, Tusculan Disputations: On the Nature of the Gods, And on the Commonwealth
  • Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
  • Philo of Alexandria, The Works of Philo: Complete and Unabridged (1854-55)

Dictionaries

  • A phraseological English-Latin dictionary, for the use of Eton [and other schools] and King's College, London (1856)
  • An English-Greek lexicon

Editor

  • Letters of Horace Walpole, 2 vols.
  • Essays Of John Dryden
  • Three Centuries of English Literature
  • A gradus ad Parnassum: For the use of Eton, Westminster, Harrow, and Charterhouse schools, King's college, London, and Marlborough college (1850)

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